Clothes and line grip



LABSENEAU.

CLOTHES AND LiNE GRIP.

APPLICATION FILED JAN-13,1920.

Patented Oct. 12, 1920.

UNITED STATES JOHN ARSENEAU, 0F SHEDIAC, NEW BRUNSWICK, CAN 'ADA.

CLOTHES AND- LINE GRIP.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 12, 1920.

Application filed January 13, 1920. Serial No. 351,204.

T 0 allwhom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN ARSENEAU, a subject of the King of GreatBritain, and resident of the town of Shediac, in'the Province of NewBrunswick, in the Dominion of Canada, have invented certain new anduseful Improvements in Clothes and Line Grips, of which the following isa specification.

This invention relates to improvements in pins, designed for hangingclothes, either on a rope, in rooms, presses, or for holding oflicepapers and files, and the objects of the invention are to facilitatesecuring an article to be hung between the jaws of the pin, and thussuspending the pin from a suspending means such as a rope, cord, or thelike, to simplify the arrangement of the several parts of the pin, andbetter adapt it to perform the functions required of it.

With the above and other objects in View, the invention consistsessentially of the improved construction, particularly described and setforth in the following specification and accompanying drawings formingpart of the same. i

In the drawings Figure 1 is a perspective view of the improved pin asseen when hanging clothes from a line.

Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the same.

Fig. 3 is a front elevation of the improved p Fig. 4 is a frontelevation of one member of the pin.

Fig.5 is a front elevation of the second member of the pin.

Fig. 6 is a fragmentary side elevation of the upper end of the twomembers of the pin, showing the method of securing the same together. I

Like characters of reference refer to like parts in the several figures.

Referring to the drawings, A represents a pin, consisting of twomembers, B and C, hin edly connected together.

The member B is formed of a piece of resilient wire, which is bent inU-shape, and is provided with a curl 10, after which the piece of wireis bent substantially rectangular to form a jaw 11.

The wire is then; bent to form a second curl or eyelet 12, which isarranged in alinement with the eyelet 10, and the free ends of the wireare then secured together as shown at 13. i

The second member C is formed of a piece of resilient wire, and is bentto form a shank 14 from which a laterally. extending. U- shapedprojection 15 is formed, and the wire is then bent to form a jaw 16.

The wire is now bent to form a second lateral projection 17, inalinement with the projection 15, and the shank is completed by securingthe end 18 of the wire to the other ortion of the shank.

In t is case, one end of the wire is formed with an upwardly extendingprojecting end 19 having a lateral angularly disposed hook member 20. I

The projections 15 and 17 engage with the rings or eyelets 10 and 12,and the offset hook end 20 of the member C is designed to pass throughthe upper U-shaped end of the member B, the jaws 11 and 16 beingdesigned to engage. The members B and C are under tension when in aclosed position, this bein effected by offsetting the jaws 11 and 16 asshown in Fig. 2.

It will thus be seen that the two members B! and C are hingedlyconnected and may be opened, and clothes will be embraced be tween thejaws 11 and 16 of the pin A.

The jaws are then closed by rotating the shank 16 toward the upperportion ,of the member B, and passing the offset hook end 20 through theU-shaped upper portion of the member B.

It should be particularly noticed that when the hook end 20 is releasedfrom pres sure, it will engage with one of the side arms of the memberB, and so hold the clothes in position, this engagement of thehook-shaped end 20 being shown in Fig. 6.

l/Vhen suspending the clothes from a line, it is only necessary to pressthe upper ends of the two members B and C together to disengage the hookend 20 of the member C from the member B, and the said hook end willthen be made to embrace the line as shown in Fig. 1.

This .pin cannot be displaced laterally, or any other way, and there isno possibility of it working loose from the line, or from the clothesworking loose from the jaws of the pin. 7

This pin may also be utilized in oflices for hanging files, and for manyother purposes, in which an article is to be suspended from a hangingmember.

As many changes could be made in the above construction, and manyapparently tion, within the scope of the claim, constructed withoutdeparting from the spirit or scope thereof, it is intended that all mat;ter contained in the accompanying specifi' cation and drawings, shall beinterpreted as illustrative and not in a limiting sense.

What I claim as my invention is A pin comprising a pair of members, oneof the members having loops formed in the side walls, the other memberhaving lateral projections adapted to engage the loops,

whereby the ,members are pivotally connected, the said members beingformed with jaws, one of the members being provided with an offset endterminating in a hook projeotion'adapted topass through and engage onearm of the other member, and also to be engaged by a flexible supportingmember, whereby the said supporting member is clamped between the twomembers constituting the pin. V

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of twowitnesses. JOHN ARSENEAU.

Witnesses:

' AGNES ORQURKE,

W. B. CoNNoLLY.

